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COLLATERALIZE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they collateralize ... he / she / it collateralizes
Past simple: collateralized
Past participle: collateralized
-ing form: collateralizing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Pledge as a collateral
Example:
The loan was collateralized by government bonds
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "collateralize" is one way to...):
pledge (give as a guarantee)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
